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Thursday, May 24, 2007

2B2B: 2 BUSY 2 BLOG

Kind of. Summer is here, and with it come children by droves: those forelective surgery, those who fall from monkey bars, and those who get tooclose to lawnmowers.

When the choice is 'sleep' or 'blog,' sleep usually wins.

UPDATE!

ENJOY THE VIDEO of the man Rush Limbaugh refers to as the 'Breck Girl:'

But here is something that has been sitting on the hard drive long enough.I have to polish it later today, but here goes:

A Modified Book Meme

A List of Books:

Look at the list of books below.

Look at the mess I have made of it.

I wrote comments for most of the books. A lot of the books are ones I havenever heard of.

It is hard to consider this a list of 'great books' when it includes TWOfrom Mitch Albom.

When I get home, I shall:

1. Bold the ones I've read,2. Italicize the ones I want to read,3. Cross out the ones I won't touch with a 10 foot pole or would neverrecommend,4. turn blue the ones on my book shelf,5. and asterisk* the ones I've never heard of,

AND

look for a youtube video we talked about at dinner last night....

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) NO2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) TO READ SOMEDAY3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) TO READ SOMEDAY4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell) NOT SURE5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien) 2002

6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien) 20027. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien) 20028. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery) TO READ SOMEDAY9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon) NOT SURE10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry) NOT SURE

11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling) NO12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown) Actually read through this during a slowday at work. Unbelievable garbage – I threw the book out.13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling) NO14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving) NO WHAT I HAVE READ OF JOHNIRVING MADE ME SICK15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden) NOT SURE

21. The Hobbit (Tolkien) 200222. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) NOT SURE23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) SOME DAY24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold) NOT SURE25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel) NOT SURE Pie should be eaten.

26. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) NOT SURE27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) SOMEDAY28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) 197729. East of Eden (John Steinbeck) SOMEDAY30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom) Good grief! I remember him as aso-so reporter for some Detroit newspaper NO

31. Dune (Frank Herbert) 1979? I think. Favorite quote: "If wishes werefishes, we'd all cast nets." Proof that the subjunctive clause will be inuse even after we master space travel.32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks) NOT SURE33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) NOT SURE34. 1984 (Orwell) 1981 just under the wire….35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley) NOT SURE

36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett) NOT SURE37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay) NOT SURE38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb) NOT SURE39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant) NOT SURE40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho) NOT SURE

41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel) Saw the movie. Darryl Hannahas the only acne-free blond cave woman. This must count for something….42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) NOT SURE43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella) NOT SURE44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom) Him again!?!45. Bible (Over 15 different Translations both on shelf and read) NOTENOUGH OF IT

46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) SOME DAY47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) I read the ClassicsIllustrated comic book version of it, and have the book on the shelf TO READSOME DAY48. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt) NOT SURE49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) SOME DAY50. She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb) I have heard the song by the same nameby the 'Guess Who'

51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver) NOT SURE52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) SOME DAY53. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card) NOT SURE54. Great Expectations (Dickens) 198355. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) 1979

56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence) NOT SURE57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling) NO58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough) NO – I CAN READ ENOUGH SCANDALOUSSTUFF ABOUT PRIESTS IN THE NEWSPAPER.59. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) NOT SURE60. The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrew Niffenegger) NOT SURE

61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) SOME DAY62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand) NOT SURE63. War and Peace (Tolstoy) SOME DAY64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice) She recently converted and wrotea fictional book about Jesus' life: Christ the Lord, Out of Egypt. Somebodyin First Things reviewed it; I shall try to find it.65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis) NOT SURE

66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) NOT SURE67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares) ISN'T THIS A STORYABOUT TEENAGER GIRLS WITH BODY IMAGE ISSUES AND A PAIR OF PANTS THAT FIT ALLOF THEM?68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)1978 – I still recall the strangest beginning toany book I ever read: "It was love at first sight…."69. Les Miserables (Hugo) (Both French and English) SOME DAY70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) 1979 Weird, but I have myown litmus test forfriends similar to the snake that swallowed the elephant.

76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay) NOT SURE77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith) SOME DAY78. The World According To Garp (John Irving) NO! NO IRVING FOR ME!79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence) NOT SURE80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White) I even discovered the 'lost ending' to thebook: "Yes, Mr. Zuckerman," Lurvy said as he leaned back from the table,"That really was some pig!"

81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley) CODE WORD FOR 'UNDERWEAR'82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck) 1980 "GEE, GEORGE, ARE YOU GOING TO CATCH MEA MOUSE?"83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier) NOT SURE84. Wizard's First Rule (Terry Goodkind) PROBABLY NOT85. Emma (Jane Austen) SOME DAY

86. Watership Down (Richard Adams) 1980 "You will have a thousand enemies,and when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catchyou…."87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) 197988. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields) NOT SURE89. Blindness (Jose Saramago) CAN'T READ A BOOK IF I CAN'T SEE IT90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer) NOT SURE

91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje) NOT SURE – DIDN'T THIS GUY WRITE ABOUTAN ENGLISH PATIENT?92. Lord of the Flies (Golding) 1983 GREAT METAPHOR FOR CIVILIZATION93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck) NOT SURE94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd) SURE. SIGN ME UP.95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum) I HAVE PROBLEMS WITH PEOPLE WITH'IDENTITY' ISSUES.

96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton) NOT SURE97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch) NOT SURE98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford) COULD SHE MAKE ME A LOAN?99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield) NOT SURE100. Ulysses (James Joyce) SOME DAY

I had to put 'NOT SURE' for many because I had never heard of them. I don'tget out much….

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I used to have a section here where I listed some of my interests, but I was saddened to see that it linked my site to folks who had, well, behavior not really in line with that of a Catholic working hard to be a good dadwithnoisykids.
We have 12 living children, and their ages are: 21, 19, 17, 16, 15, 13, 12, 10, 9, 7, 5, and 2 years old.
Our third child, Theodore, passed away on April 3, 2008, at the age of 15.